BBC Documentaries

Easter Rising 1916: Eoin MacNéill, The Rebellion's Forgotten Man? (2016x91)

Uitzenddatum: Mrt 27, 2016

A champion of the Irish language, he founded the Gaelic League, an organisation which aimed to encourage the use of Irish in everyday life, in 1893. He was a founding member of the Irish Volunteers, a group that played a major role in the Easter Rising, in 1913 and became its chief of staff. But, he has gone down in history as the man who tried to stop the Easter Rising.